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...Brady Bunch. "It doesn't get at the fact that we're a very real family," says Vanessa Kerry, 27, a medical student at Harvard. While she concedes that initially they had to work to find common ground, today they "fight to find time to spend together." A key factor in such harmony, she says, is that each family respects the other's "legacy." For the Heinz men, that means their deceased father John; for Vanessa and sister Alexandra, 30, it's their mother Julia, who grew tired of being a politician's wife and divorced their father...
...phone once a day, to annoying Lester, who pesters you to buy his daughter's Girl Scout cookies--have their merit. The book contains humorous real-life case studies that exemplify the growing phenomenon of "doing your own thing." After all, we live in an age of Fear Factor and Survivor, in which "everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame," says Putzier. Tolerating employees who are different might be a sensible management mantra, but Putzier offers up little more than commonsense tips to managers on how they can use even the strangest workers to their company's advantage...
...Goldin credited women’s success in the workforce and larger social arena before marriage as a primary factor in the initial trend...
...Bush failed to make an appearance, even considering that it was an election year. I did think that he would be hungry for opportunities to bolster his campaign, or at the very least buff his public image a bit before the voting booths went up. What I forgot to factor in was the reality that what attracts the media, and voters in turn, determines what politicians emphasize in their quests for popularity. And who was I kidding? Bright, enthusiastic, cancer-curing, symphony-composing 18-year-olds don’t usually make for very exciting headlines. In a faceoff against...
...everywhere. It and similar cases have contributed to the increased use of caesareans when a fetal-heart monitor indicates even minor signs of trouble. Today more than one-quarter of U.S. births are by C-section (up from 5% in 1970), though fear of malpractice suits is just one factor in the trend. Meanwhile, medical research has been challenging the conventional wisdom that birth trauma was the principal culprit in cerebral palsy. "There seems to be no scientific question that most of that injury [cerebral palsy] occurs prenatally and is not related to the delivery," says Dr. H. David Bruton...